#263 — July 5, 2019

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Chris Brandrick recommends

Fuchsia.dev: Google Launches Official Site About Fuchsia OS — Google recently launched Fuchsia.dev, an official collection of developer resources and information about their in-development Fuchsia OS.

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The Live Streaming API Perfect for User-Generated Content — Whether you have thousands of streams or millions of viewers, automatically deliver the best viewer experience with Mux's live streaming API. Sign up and get $20 credit today.

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Peter Cooper recommends

NativeScript 6.0 Release Candidate is Here — Contains all the breaking changes that are going to be part of 6.0 — feedback sought.

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Spring 2019 NativeScript Community Survey Results — Results from the latest NativeScript Community Survey, including what features the community are looking forward to.

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▶  Is Capacitor the New Cordova? — Got questions about Cordova vs Capacitor? This video aims to answer them.

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Za'e Johnson recommends

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Build A PWA With Webpack And Workbox — Shows how to transform an app that doesn’t work offline into a PWA that works offline and shows an update available icon. You’ll also learn how to precache assets with workbox, handle dynamic caching as well as handle updates to your PWA.

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Chris Brandrick recommends

▶  A Look At The Xamarin SMS API — This API enables your app to open the default SMS application with an optional specified message to send to a recipient.

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How to Integrate Apple Pay in Ionic 4 Apps

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